How can I install MySQL server on Debian Linux while offline?

Question

I'm a Linux newbie. I want to install mysql-5.5.15-linux2.6-x86_64.tar.gz on a Debian box offline without using the apt command. How can I do this?

Are you sure you have all dependencies installed already? Otherwise it won't work. It's way safer to do it through apt...
What Debian version are you running (post output of cat /etc/debian_version)? Is your system really 64-bit (post output of uname -a)? Do you just want an offline-install of MySQL or is there a reason you want to use a .tar.gz?

Lord Torgamus · Answer 1 · 2011-09-02 05:13:29Z

As far as I know, you can install from source by

Unzipping the source file
Opening a terminal and going — via cd — to the directory where the source is
Running the make command from the terminal, hoping a makefile was included with the source

This is the general way. If you perform a Google search, you'll get a more appropriate answer.

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